Alcohol: social drinking in cultural context

by Chrzan, Janet

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Title Statements

Full title :Alcohol : social drinking in cultural context / Janet Chrzan.

Summary

From the publisher. The purpose of this book is to provide a critical examination of human use of alcohol across cultures and through time, thereby providing a framework for undergraduate students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol. Almost all books written about alcohol for college students have a "problems" perspective, either clinically (alcohol as a drug) or societally (as deviance, or a social problem). Many students have problems responding to these approaches. Understanding human use of alcohol anthropologically is a refreshingly different and effective method of harm reduction, which can be used by instructors to teach students how to reduce potential damage to themselves and others, while at the same time conveying the "anthropological imagination."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:188 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415892490, 041589249X, 9780415892506, 0415892503, 9780203071380, 0203071387
oclc:ocn701015528
LC Classification:HV5020
Dewey Decimal:364.1/3

Introduction : why is drinking interesting? -- Alcohol in the ancient world -- Barbarians and beerpots : european drinking from the Celts to Victoria -- A short history of American drinking -- It's happy hour! modern American drinking -- Alcohol advertising -- Why do students drink? -- Conclusion : why do people drink?

Subjects

Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects Alkoholkonsum Boissons alcoolisées -- Aspect social Consommation d'alcool -- Histoire Drinking of alcoholic beverages Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Hist… Gesellschaft Health and Fitness Health and Wellbeing History Kultur